May 29-B, 2023

If we live long enough,
we all come to the same realizations,
the same truth.

Those who know,
know the same things.

Those who don't know
are lost in the world
of their own aspirations
and desires,
their wants and their will,
incapable of perceiving what's what
and what needs to be done about it
for the true good of the whole,
bent and focused as they are
on their own way and having it, or else.

The "or else" extracts a heavy price--
in their own life time,
and over the eons and ages
of life on earth,
to the detriment
of the best interest
of all concerned. 

Profit--that is to say,
"My Profit NOW"--at any price
does that over time.

Ah, but. 
In the meantime,
"Let the good times roll!"

Bread and circuses now--
what do we care about the future?

The epitaph of the planet.

Apparent to anyone
with eyes to see.

As it is with the palms and pines,
so it is with the high rises
and the skyscrapers--
with Miami,
Charleston
and New Orleans
among the first to go. 

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